TODAY! The online Late Medieval Urban History Seminar is meeting at 15:00(UK)/16:00(CET) to hear Dr Francesco Bozzi, of the University of Milan on: Society, Migration Flows, and Name Changes: Verona, 15th Century If you're not already on the list run by Miri Rubin send me a DM for the Teams link!

Does your research involve unedited medieval records? Would it be richer if it did? The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School has an intensive course for you! 👇 this year the summer school will be in Birmingham. #Skystorians #Medieval #Archives #Palaeography 📚📜📖☀️ palaeography.uk/study/short-...

We’re currently recruiting for a Project Cataloguer on a 1 year fixed-term contract to catalogue parts of our archives relating to our transfer from Hamburg to London in 1933. 35 hours per week £30,842 per annum Apply by 12 May 2026 Apply now ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #jobopportunity #UoL

VCH Oxon XIX on the Wychwood Forest area (published 2019) is now available in digital form at www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol19 (thanks to @bho.bsky.social) - covering the forest itself and surrounding settlements. (Print version still available from boydellandbrewer.com + public libraries!)

Great to see tis volume available @bho.bsky.social. It includes my favourite editorial intervention (to date), which was to ask the editor to gloss what the 'Chipping Norton Set' is/was. Remember that? The point is that the volume covers this area from the earliest times to the 21st century. 🗃️

It’s not too late to book for this summer school course, in London 8-12 June. For anyone who is interested in working with documents from medieval England. #Skystorians #MedievalSky @komldsp.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...

It’s summer (allegedly), and all around the country, small vans are driving around residential estates playing music out loud — and people are smiling when they hear it. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fro...

'Open Maps: New Research Directions and Workflows for Digitized Historical Cartographic Material' Useful overview of recent, key projects/developments at the intersection of historic cartography and spatial intelligence. openmapsmeeting.nl/publications...

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

Amazing creative project using @layersoflondon.bsky.social !

The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on the early history of the Public Records Office starting this October phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @universityofleeds.bsky.social Available full or part-time. #archives #skystorians

New version of the WP by @patrickwallis.bsky.social @aucointaylor.bsky.social @markhailwood.bsky.social @justincolson.bsky.social @jwhittle.bsky.social and David Chilosi! doi.org/10.17863/CAM...

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty" Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now! palaeography.uk/study/short-...

One more time: this is not a bug; this is not something that will be fixed in the next version - this is inherently how an LLM works. A technology built as a word guessing machine can get better at guessing words, but never deals in 'facts'

Do you want to improve your knowledge of medieval manuscripts from England? Book now for this summer school course, in person, in London, 8-12 June. 👇☀️📚 #medievalsky please repost! palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Yesterday, on the first sunny day of the year, @cheesetastingco.bsky.social and I ran the Tasting History event at Birkbeck. We tasted cheese, had a conversation with a brilliant audience, and hopefully brought to life the history of the trade and the people who made it happen.

Here are some photos from last year’s course: the only summer school group ever known to work through the lunch breaks #MedievalSky #Manuscripts @ies-sas.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social

🚂 Joy on the Southbank, misery in the Square Mile. Here’s what the City of London’s much vaunted ‘retrofit-first’ policy looks like in reality, as planning permission was granted this week for the £1.2 billion demolition of Liverpool Street Station. 🧵 Scroll down for 8 damning before / after views

Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more! www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...

We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up! Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections. 📍 The London Archives 📅 1 April + 3 June 🕛️ 1-4:30pm

W towers of parish churches of Boston (1420s-1510s), St Michael Coventry (1370s-1440s) and Cirencester (1400s-20s). Latter was built with squinches to take an octagonal stage/spire but was aborted after they had to put massive flyers through the aisles to stop the W side falling apart from thrust.

Network Rail + ACME’s latest plans are on the planning portal at the City of London. The way to combat this is to object by 9th February on that planning portal. Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is on the link on our bio. Along with a link to our fundraiser. #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Presentation I gave for the Warsaw Spatial Humanities Seminar on Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social as an example of applied Deep Mapping is now live on Vimeo vimeo.com/1161792658

🧵amazing results we've had using Gemini #AI to work with #Medieval #London primary sources: but also clear illustrations of how limited and flawed LLMs are as research tools. Transcriptions from 1980s handwritten index cards, and annotations were next to perfect, but flaws exposed in process (1/9)

Catching an Uber, #Bridgerton style? This remarkable 1783 pocket #map of #London, in the collection of @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, shows the Hackney Coach fare between key destinations in the city. A great guide to getting around - and avoiding getting ripped off! More info in AltText.

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Great to see our new IHR Discovery Course on 'Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place', led by @justincolson.bsky.social, getting off to a brilliant start this morning. A full room, lots of treasures from @ihrlibrary.bsky.social, + a fascinating few days of lectures, workshops and visits ahead!

I've just submitted my objection to the Liverpool Street planning application - please add your voices! Regular user of the station, I know l that claimed need for redevelopment is nonsense - the concourse is less crowded now that the Elizabeth line is open, but total numbers being used to deceive!

Our new short courses are a great way to learn about using different kinds of sources for researching and writing history. Whether you're researching one place, or something broader, this is the ideal introduction to using the built environment in history!

Final day for bookings for my Historic Maps course next week! We'll explore the history of surveying and cartography, colonial map making and tithe maps. We'll also get hands on with physical and digital historic map collections!

What’s this? A second new book in two days? Towcester Hundred is the eighth VCH volume for Northamptonshire, including the town of Towcester and its rural neighbours. Available soon from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and @ihrlibrary.bsky.social. #Skystorians #LocalHistory

It really shouldn't be so difficult to change a battery in a toothbrush! When this Oral B brush stopped holding charge, I was determined not to give in to planned obsolescence. Took a £5 NiMH battery, and re-soldering 9 joints - clearly designed deliberately to discourage you from sustainability!

Did medieval people buy each other Christmas gifts? New Year's Day was the main gifting day, but little is known about everyday people's present giving. Our project on London's customs records has uncovered a wealth of affordable items imported around this time: gloves and hats to toys and rattles🧵

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

We’ll be running our introduction to manuscript studies again in June 2026. There’s an early bird discount if you book this month, but if students are interested please encourage them to book early as this course has limited places 👇 📚📖✏️💻 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Can’t get to London for summer school? In Jan we are running online courses. Forget the cold by exploring medieval manuscripts. Classes are small so book now! 👇 @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social #MedievalSky ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣Booking is now open for the London International Palaeography School 2026 📣 We are running five 5-day courses, from practical hands-on 'making medieval manuscripts' to an introduction to Arabic manuscripts - don't miss out! 10% discount if you book before 23 Jan! ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

This is so rarely mentioned, but incredibly important. Universities seem determined to spend virtually unlimited cash with the same few publishing/outsourcing firms, for deeply flawed, frustrating, and atrophied software. Anything to avoid the "risk" of having to manage your own systems, it seems!

'One solution is to move away from costly proprietary software and to invest in our own people to build community-led hardware and infrastructure solutions with open source software.' Some European governments have started to do so already. 3/3

The King has commanded that the Greater London Authority (GLA) shall be allowed to use the coat of arms that once belonged to its predecessor, the GLC. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

📢 NEW 'Project Progress Update' Blog Post! 📢 We've recently reached a very significant project milestone, and thought this would be the perfect moment to provide a research update: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... Featuring @zooniverse.bsky.social news, and a sneak peek at our database! 📜✍️💻

Historians doing place-based and spatial research often want to make use of archaeological work, but it can often feel difficult to find what you want, and difficult to interpret when you do find it. This course is designed to help historians get a foothold in the world of archaeology!

Want to use archaeology in your local history research? In my new @ihr.bsky.social 'Discovery' short course (29 April-1 May 2026) you will learn where to locate and how to use records of surveys, excavations and finds in your area. Plus a visit to the @antiquaries.bsky.social library and...

Interested in old maps? My new @ihr.bsky.social 'Discovery' Short Course will introduce the history of cartography, how to find and work with old maps online, and even how to georeference historical maps! We'll also get hands-on with map collections, plus lecture from @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social